Unveiled today at the Eiffel Tower, American street artist and environmental activist Shepard ‘OBEY’ Fairey’s Earth Crisis artwork ushers in ... and cautionary images representing threats to the ...

Change your smartphone wallpaper, and suddenly, you’ll feel like you’re holding a whole new device. Changing the wallpaper on your Android is also a straightforward task. What’s hard is find ...

Are aliens real? The Milky Way could have 40 billion Earth-sized planets, but many evolutionary scientists assume that intelligent life is vanishingly rare. A new study upends that belief ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

Related: Earth from space — Incredible images of our planet from above Writing in his book Pale Blue Dot (1994), Sagan's famous description of the image is just as relevant and powerful today as ...

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Venus and Saturn will set about three hours after sunset.Venus and Saturn are currently in conjunction, meaning the planets appear close together in the night sky from Earth. These two planets are ...

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

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